Sean Michael Kerner

The Secure Domain Foundation (SDF)—a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to provide information and services to domain registries to help prevent fraudulent domain name registrations. “We’re trying to tag and track the bad actors in the domain space,” Chris Davis, SDF co-founder and president told eWEEK. “The Secure Domain Foundation is designed to be a true […]

Microsoft is at the center of a pair of security incidents last week that serve to illustrate how the software giant uses customer information. In one incident, Microsoft was allegedly breached by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), which is an online hacktivist group that is loosely affiliated with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. […]

Oracle reported its third quarter fiscal 2014 earnings on March 18, with revenue coming in at $9.3 billion, for a four percent year-over-year gain. Hardware systems products revenues were reported at $725 million, for an eight percent year-over-year increase. The big winner within the hardware category is Oracle’s Engineered Systems category, with revenue growth of […]

Why is Full-Disclosure shutting down? The whole point of the Full-Disclosure mailing list by definition is full disclosure about security vulnerabilities, which can sometimes be a dicey issue. There is a right and a wrong way to do disclosure, and I’ve long been of the opinion that vendors should always be notified first and given […]

The latest disclosures came March 18 in a Washington Post report about a voice-interception program called Mystic. Mystic is able to siphon all of the telephone calls from a target country and stores them for 30 days. NSA analysts are able to replay calls and take voice clippings of interesting bits for further investigation and […]

Not everyone thinks the power of positive thinking is a prudent path to self improvement, but Akamai Chief Security Office Andy Ellis believes it can have a positive impact on IT security. Ellis presented on the topic of cognitive injection at the recent RSA conference and, in a video interview with eSecurityPlanet, explained what cognitive […]

Oracle this week officially released Java 8, ushering in a new era of development capabilities for the standard-bearer of enterprise IT software platforms. The path to Java 8 has been a long one for Oracle, dating back to at least 2010, when the Java Community Process (JCP) voted in favor of JSR-337, the specification for […]

Security vendor Trend Micro is warning about a spam campaign that is targeting gamers looking to play “Grand Theft Auto V” (GTA V) on the PC. GTA V is the latest iteration of the popular gaming franchise, but to date, the game has only been available on gaming consoles and not on the PC. The […]

Mozilla has decided that there is no demand and no point in building a browser for Microsoft’s Modern Design approach, formerly known as Metro. The Metro interface is a key new component that Microsoft introduced to the desktop world when Windows 8 first hit the market in 2012. Metro offers the promise of a more […]

Schneier is well known in the security community for his books. In 2012, he published Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Need to Thrive. In 2013, Schneier published Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security. He is currently working on a book about Internet and power that will examine “how the Internet […]

Among the new features that Aruba is highlighting as part of its Mobility Defined Networking approach is a mobility firewall technology. Robert Fenstermacher, director of Product and Solutions Marketing at Aruba, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that Aruba’s mobility firewall is a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) statefull firewall. Fenstermacher said that the firewall also provides […]

Itai Lahan, CEO of Cloudinary, explained to Datamation that his company is aiming to make it easier to help websites and online services to store and manage images in the cloud. Lahan noted that many websites have different needs for images including tagging and moderation as well as manipulation. In terms of direct customers, Lahan […]